Parallel Entangling Operations on a Universal Ion Trap Quantum Computer

Understand

The circuit model of a quantum computer consists of sequences of gate operations between quantum bits (qubits), drawn from a universal family of discrete operations.

• The ability to execute parallel entangling quantum gates offers clear efficiency gains in numerous quantum circuits as well as for entire algorithms such as Shor's factoring algorithm and quantum simulations.
• In cases such as full adders and multiple-control Toffoli gates, parallelism can provide an exponential improvement in overall execution time.
• More importantly, quantum gate parallelism is essential for the practical fault-tolerant error correction of qubits that suffer from idle errors.